Being the top ninja at the vige came at a price. utz couldn''t even fathom how many people he had almost worked for free just because they had helped to improve the political standing of the vige in the world of hell.


    At the end of it all, out of a 1000 gold mission, he would only get a measly 250 gold. Though the cost of missions increased with his rank but he was kept stolen over and over again and he couldn''t even do anything about it. At one point utz had epted it and had got used to having money stolen from him in such a manner.??


    So how could he not be happy when he was getting money directly from the customer? He couldn''t help but have his ck eyes shimmer in golden light instead.


    The vige and the representative were always the one who managed the transactions and the marketing. utz was just an employee who got his pay.


    So the feeling of an intense urge to sumb to greed was apletely new experience to him. And there were many good enough reasons that he could give himself to y along with it.


    ''It''s not ninja work.''


    In utz''s dictionary had got crooked after living quite a few decades in hell. In his opinion, any work that was not ninja work was good work. That was what he believed.


    "Are you telling me or not? I would go back to the 5000 coin one if you don''t make your decision fast. It''s a limited time offer."


    utz squinted his eyes but his body worked differently. His thumb rose up high in the air no matter how much he wanted to hold it back.


    "Deal!"


    Verona watched the scene as she had a sense of deja vu out of nowhere.


    She couldn''t help butpare and contrast the current event with a simr situation she had faced back at the [Ice Post].


    ''Wasn''t the reply just like this when I had asked him to heed to my request?''


    As she thought more about it and as she began realizing the striking simrity between the two of them her face turned into that of a frown.


    It was a strange feeling that wasn''t able toe in terms with her own dilemma. After all, just like the money Shizu was offering at the moment she had offered a ''special service'' for the same. But she chose to deny it altogether to hold onto her innocence.


    Her act was immoral indeed. But she med utz for it for causing someplexity in her heart.


    ''Hmph! You think my love is just worth 10000 golds? Hmph! I did it because I loved you, otherwise I wouldn''t have done it no matter how much you begged for it.''


    She couldn''t help but start to console herself as she tried to calm herself down. It was quite a pity that utz couldn''t read her thoughts otherwise he would have screamed that her boobs were priceless.


    ''Just you see. I would make sure to properly punish you for this.''


    ***


    utz was pushed into the stage without any warning and he was indeed quite unsure about the turn of events. But he went along with it.


    ''What could happen at most? At worst, I just have to get beaten up a little to bag the 8000 gold.''


    utz smiled wryly at his challenger Colt. It was quite a pity for utz but he wasn''t able to discern the identity of his challenger.


    Indeed it was Colt Ackerman. The same person who Akihiko had warned utz against. But utz was unable to identify him. All he knew was that his challenger was a tyrant second gen that had already beaten up 2 challengers and he was the third in line.


    And indeed there were good enough reasons for why utz had failed to identify him.


    One must note that the ninjas werepletely tied to the politics of hell. As such, someone who was inactive in politics in utz''s previous life, couldn''t have been someone utz knew personally.


    All utz had heard about was the name ''Colt Ackerman'' and that he had made quite a few aplishments in his early life but in hister years he had be a drunkard owing to his failures and had lived hister life rotting away. He was one of those mob characters whose importance was only there for a single scene.


    How was utz supposed to know about someone like that? Certainly one shouldn''t expect utz to know about every face in hell.


    ''I should have asked Shizu. But now it''s toote for that.''


    utz was pushed into all of this too fast for him to act properly. He had a n A but he had no n Bs.


    *sigh*


    ''But it''s not like I am offending him here. In fact I should be satisfying his ego by losing against him just like the other newbies, wouldn''t I?''


    utz thought along the lines of ''a second gen is only dangerous when he thinks of you as a threat. As long as you are an ant in their eyes nothing bad can happen.''


    Such was thew of the jungle, ignore the others and they would ignore you unless you are their primary prey.


    ''People tend to ignore small stuff.'' ''


    utz nodded as he was convinced with his n.


    But for some reason Colt nodded along with him creating a funny scene for the crowd to chuckle to. He called out to a guard of his guild to hand over a pouch to utz before the battle.


    utz raised his brows as he received it and checked his content only for his eyes to shoot out wide as it glistened in the reflection of gold.


    "Judging by its weight its… 1000. Oh fuck"


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